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Even as booksellers cheer added revenue from this year’s popularity of adult coloring books, many confuse their success with a rosy message about a “print surge” in books.

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A new conference in London called Author Day is an event both for writers and publishing industry professionals—getting together to discuss divisive issues is the whole point.

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On both sides of the Atlantic, the leading author-advocacy organizations are sharply criticizing payment practices of publishers and calling readers’ attention to how seldom their favorite authors may be paid—and without oversight or audit.

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As the digital tempest batters the publishing industry, a group of hardy navigators have taken up a call for “Manifestos For The Future Of The Book Business,” and their 500-word essays are beacons of potential in uncertain days.

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Amid discussion about the Authors Guild’s first research since 2009 on authors’ income in the United States, executive director Mary Rasenberger talks about the Guild’s interpretation of the results of the survey.

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Discussions around digital testing by Andrew Rhomberg’s Jellybooks reflect both a need for consumer metrics and the distrust many authors have when reaction to their work is quantified.

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In its ongoing series of white papers on publishing contract reform, the Authors Guild in New York issues a warning to writers to hang onto their copyrights — and makes plans to hold a special session on rights reversion clauses with writers at the upcoming Novelists Inc. conference.

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Children’s book author and illustrator Sarah McIntyre is fighting a battle in the publishing industry to get artists credited just as writers are. She’s doing it with grace, persistence, and a whole lot of strange hats.

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Beached with a good ebook? Keep an eye on the surf. That e-reading you’re doing isn’t the worst of the digital disruption, a new report says. Thinking it’s all done now could be “extremely dangerous.” Warning flags are going up for something “insidious and often much harder” for publishing to fight.

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Five years after his introduction of ‘The Elements,’ digital book developer Theodore Gray’s Touchpress animates the principles he discussed in 2010. “Programmers,” he said then, “need to be treated as top talent, just like authors.”